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10. Adopts the indicative scale of contributions contained in the annex;
11. Notes that the indicative scale of contributions covers 92 per cent of the contributions
specified in table 1;
12. Invites the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto
Protocol, at its eighteenth session, to endorse the elements of the recommended budget as it
applies to the Kyoto Protocol;
13. Also invites the United Nations General Assembly to decide, at its seventy-ninth
session, on the issue of meeting the conference services expenses from its regular budget as
a continuation of existing practice;
14. Approves a contingency budget for conference services, amounting to
EUR 9,325,679, to be added to the programme budget for the biennium 2024–2025 in the
event that the United Nations General Assembly decides not to provide resources for these
activities in the United Nations regular budget (see table 3);
15. Requests the Executive Secretary to report to the Subsidiary Body for Implementation
on the implementation of matters referred to in paragraphs 13–14 above, as necessary;
16. Authorizes the Executive Secretary to make transfers between each of the
appropriation lines set out in table 1, up to an aggregate limit of 15 per cent of total estimated
expenditure for those appropriation lines, provided that a further limitation of up to –25
per cent of each such appropriation line shall apply, while ensuring no negative impacts on
the activities under each division;
17. Decides to maintain the level of the working capital reserve at 8.3 per cent of the
estimated expenditure;
18. Urges Parties that have not made contributions in full to the core budget for the current
and/or previous bienniums to do so without further delay;
19. Invites all Parties to the Convention to note that each Party shall, prior to 1 January of
each year, inform the secretariat of the contribution it intends to make that year and of the
projected timing of that contribution in accordance with paragraph 8(a) of the UNFCCC
financial procedures, and that contributions to the core budget are due on 1 January of each
year in accordance with paragraph 8(b) of the financial procedures, and to pay promptly and
in full, for each of 2024 and 2025, the contributions required to finance the expenditures
approved in paragraph 1 above and any contributions required to finance the expenditures
arising from the decision referred to in paragraph 14 above on the contingency budget;
20. Takes note of the funding estimates of EUR 13.5 million for the Trust Fund for
Participation in the UNFCCC Process specified by the Executive Secretary for the biennium
2024–2025;
21. Invites Parties to make contributions to the Trust Fund for Participation in the
UNFCCC Process;
22. Takes note of the funding estimate of EUR 152.3 million for the Trust Fund for
Supplementary Activities specified by the Executive Secretary for the biennium 2024–2025
(see tables 4 and 5);
23. Invites Parties to make contributions to the Trust Fund for Supplementary Activities
with a view to enabling the implementation of activities envisaged under the Fund;
24. Requests the Executive Secretary to propose to the Conference of the Parties at its
twenty-ninth session (November 2024) any adjustments that might be needed to the
programme budget for the biennium 2024–2025 and to support any such proposal with a
report on income and budget performance for the period 1 January to 30 June 2024;
25. Also requests, recalling paragraph 22 of decision 22/CP.21 and paragraph 20 of
decision 21/CP.23, in which the Executive Secretary was requested to include a zero nominal
growth scenario in the same format and at the same level of detail as any other scenario, the
secretariat to present zero real growth and actual needs scenarios in future biennium budget
proposals;